Bill Gates gives tribute to Paul Allen. “Paul deserved more time in life,” Gates said of his Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article out Thursday. “He would have made the most of it. I will miss him tremendously.”

PayPal beats across the board. The digital-payments company beat on both the top and bottom lines and gave fourth-quarter earnings-per-share guidance of $0.65 to $0.67, ahead of the $0.65 that was expected.